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Roman",serif">Representatives
of a Foreign State Meet with French Investigative
Judges to Try to Interfere in
Dr. Diab’s case; PM Trudeau Urged to Remedy
Miscarriage of Justice</span></b><span
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RELEASE</span></b><span
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Roman",serif">For
Immediate Release</span></b><span
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November 2017, Ottawa –</span></b><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif"> Dr. Hassan Diab was informed that
recently officials of a foreign state
met with the French investigative judges offering their
help in getting him
charged instead of freed and returned to Canada. Dr.
Diab was extradited from
Canada to France in November 2014 even though the
Canadian extradition judge
found that the evidence presented by French authorities
is “suspect” and “very
problematic”; yet he stated that he felt compelled under
Canada’s extradition
law to order Dr. Diab’s extradition.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif">Dr. Diab
has been in pre-trial detention in France for three
years despite three French
judges repeatedly ordering his conditional release. The
investigative judges in
charge of the case found that there is “consistent
evidence” that Dr. Diab was
not in France at the time of the 1980 Paris bombing.
Official documents as well
as several witnesses confirmed that Dr. Diab was
studying and taking his
university exams in Lebanon at that time. However, the
French Court of Appeal
quashed all release orders following the prosecutor’s
appeals notably because
of the climate in France. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif">On July
28, 2017, the French investigative judges issued a
notice about the end of
investigations in Dr. Diab’s case. However, their final
decision was delayed
because the French prosecutor failed to submit arguments
within one month as
stipulated in the French Criminal Procedure Code. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif">To this
day, no such submission have been filed, but instead
officials of a foreign
state have intervened to keep the case against Dr. Diab
alive at any cost. This
latest development increases serious and legitimate
fears that political
pressure might interfere with the investigations and
jeopardize Dr. Diab’s
right to fair and independent justice. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif">The note
submitted by the foreign state officials does not
include any evidence. It
refers to old, recycled, unfounded anonymous and
contradictory allegations that
were discredited by the French investigative judges. The
note even misstates
the date of the Paris bombing as 1982, and seems to
confuse Dr. Diab with
someone else. Its palpable unreliability lends credence
to the fact that this
intervention by a foreign state is nothing more than a
last minute, desperate
attempt to bring political pressure on the French
judicial authorities and to deny
Dr. Diab justice in France.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif">Don
Bayne, Dr. Diab’s lawyer in Canada, noted that “Dr. Diab
has been pleading for
help from the Canadian government in his Kafkaesque
situation as he remains
imprisoned despite evidence of his innocence. Canada has
been timid to act to
aid this unjustly detained Canadian, while a foreign
state is taking direct
action seeking to weigh on a procedure conducted by
French judicial
authorities. Canada’s voice of protest must be
registered at the highest level
of our government. The duty of a government is
protection of its citizens.
Prime Minister Trudeau must demand Dr. Diab’s freedom
and return to Canada.
Will the Canadian government stand idly as the
injustices in this case
compound?” </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
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information:</span></b><span
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href="mailto:diabsupport@gmail.com" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="color:blue">diabsupport@gmail.com</span></a></span></p>
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